cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18983704

West spoke with the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc at the Abandon Biden convention, hosted down the street from the Democratic National Convention. He denied in strong terms that he had ever been a fan of “top cop” Vice President Kamala Harris and accused her of complicity in genocide.

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    The Washington Examiner, a publication every true leftist reads regularly.

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      No surprise, it seems many love echo chambers and self-censorship.

      I do not limit myself to only reading, watching, or learning about what I agree with.

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          I would agree, in this case, due to being against genocide.

          It is an easy choice when Blue MAGA and MAGA are pro-genocide.


          “If you want something crucial like genocide… you’ve got to have a social movement on the outside that generate leaders who have a history of being anti-genocide,” he continued. “You can’t have leaders who’ve been tied to genocide most of their career, and act as if they’re going to make a promise and then try to bring you in. You get co-opted, and you end up selling out, and they turn away from their prompt what they’ve done all the time, but they can’t meet the promise of dealing with poverty, wealth inequality, mass incarceration, that one isolated politician who’s been tied to say all this time is going to do that. No, no, not at all.”

          West compared to the situation of slavery, where both sides were evil for partaking in it, and neither could be joined by people of good conscience.

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    Hey Cornel West how do you feel about genocide in Ukraine?

    “Yeah we cool”

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      When you compare what is happening to the Palestinian people versus the Ukrainian people, you are downplaying the Palestinian genocide.

      Looking at the history and the causes of escalation, they are not the same.

      Ukraine is a pawn of the US and NATO, which is only used to continue to push for regime change and aggression toward Russia.

      Ukraine is much more similar to Israel in that the US gives them unlimited military support so as to continue aggression against the nations around them and push for more forever wars.

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        When you compare what is happening to the Palestinian people versus the Ukrainian people

        I wasn’t doing that. They’re obviously massively different situations. I was just pointing out that Cornel West is okay with genocide, just only certain types of it.

        Oh hey Jimmy - what do you think of Uighur genocide?

        continue aggression against the nations around them

        Kek

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          They’re obviously massively different situations

          I agree with that.

          Cornel West is okay with genocide

          I don’t think we will agree on this topic; Cornel West does not believe the government and military talking points around Ukraine.

          I make it a priority to try and follow the military leaks and whistleblowers that helped call out the lies of our nation. I see why people are waking up to the reality of US imperialism, where we continue to push for more forever wars, Ukraine and Israel being examples.

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              government and military talking points

              continue to push for regime change and aggression

              Our government and our military will always have an excuse to push for more wars.

              We are doing much worse things than what other nations are doing, the only difference is that everyone has a phone and can share the videos and images of what we are doing and funding around the world.

              We do not have the excuse of not seeing the images and videos being shared in social media.

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    Remember kids, blocking users is super easy. No need to give air to people that want to fling poo.

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